Embezzlement

  

It's stealing for people who have graduate degrees. A classic genre of white collar crime, along with insider trading and money laundering.

Embezzlers secretly siphon money away from the companies (or other organizations) that they work for and sock it away in their own accounts. Typically, the process involves identifying some loophole in the company's oversight regime and then using accounting tricks to divert funds. Make up fake invoices. Create fictional employees. That kind of thing.

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